30497 : CA Personal Firewall HIPS Driver (kmxfw.sys) Local Privilege Escalation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-11-16

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-6952" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Computer Associates Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) drivers (1) Core kmxstart.sys 6.5.4.31 and (2) Firewall kmxfw.sys 6.5.4.10 allow local users to gain privileges by using certain privileged IOCTLs to modify callback function pointers.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Impact: Loss of Integrity
OSVDB: Security Software

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2006-6952 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 21140
Secunia Advisory ID: 22972
Related OSVDB ID: 30498
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-11/0332.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0568.html
Vendor URL: http://home2.ca.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=caconsum&productID=50709000
Other Advisory URL: http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=38
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=39

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-01-25 | Disagree?

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